Current Status of Green Supply Chain Practices and Initiatives in the Indian SMEs: An Exploratory Study

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is one of the recent buzz world in the industrial enterprises in India for the enhancing the capabilities of their supply chain management through sustainability. Industries are more interested in profit making due to sustainable supply chain activities rather than to save environment. Thus in this research, we aim to study the various activities involved in the supply chain processes of the various Indian manufacturing industries & finds how much eco-friendly they are in their logistics as well as supply chain activities by taking into account from the procurement of the raw material to the transportation of the end product. This study will serve the purpose of metering the performance of the Indian industry which includes both small scale as well large scale industrial houses. The major six activities of the supply chain; namely green procurement, green manufacturing, green warehousing, green distribution, green packaging, green transportation are being covered throughout the research from these above process activities we measured the performance of the various Indian manufacturing industries with the help of various crucial performance indicators & their sub-indicator’s. The research outcome based on the survey in this research paper identifies the important results that are causes impact on the environment caused by the manufacturing sectors based upon the appropriate methodology we applied for research purpose. In this study, we discussed the various environment factors affecting in the manufacturing sectors while greening the supply chain as identified from the literature review. A survey questionnaire designed with four main factors affecting the sustainable supply chain further having various indicators & sub-indicators. This survey questionnaire was being filled by the various multiple manufacturing sectors in order to find out the sustainability performance of various manufacturing sectors towards green future.